Just when it seemed Chicago was jam-packed with summer festivals, a strange confluence of bedfellows – rival promoters Jam Productions and Live Nation, several South Side aldermen, and jam-band kingpin Dave Matthews – got together earlier this year and decided to stage another one on a huge parcel of lakeside property that can only be dubbed the “Nearly Forgotten Chicago.”

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Lin's Bin starts with a question.
Is it OK to compliment a woman on her breasts?
Where does the time go?
Why are teenagers so cranky?
The questions come from clueless frat boys, from wistful mothers, from grade school kids...

Friday: STRFKR, Skull Tape @ Troubadour Ignore the parental-advisory-warning-worthy name, and focus on the catchy indie dance hooks and infamously irrepressible live energy that this Portland based foursome has made its name on, so to speak, and you'll be...

An evening of tasty, locally-sourced indie rock. First on the menu are Polls, whose smart, evocative indie rock clearly recalls the genre's heyday in the 1990's. Bouncy, bright pop melodies are couched in the supportive embrace of thickly distorted...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Today is July 29,2011, just a scant four days remain for the Obama administration and Congressional negotiators to reach an agreement to raise the federal debt ceiling, sand the backyard deck of state and to...

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